Perma-cloaking magicka NB, hands down, because you'll be super-fast and you will bypass mobs and only do the fights you actually have to do. You'll be like Q in Star Trek. Super OP and able to ignore everything you don't want to deal with. Cloaking sheds all aggro.

How to get enough sustain for perma-cloaking:

(1) Be a Breton, if you can
(2) Use a high magicka recovery drink, such as Ghastly Eye Bowl or Hissmir Fisheye Rye
(3) Use ALL light armor or 6 light, 1 heavy
(4) Use ALL magicka cost reduction (NOT magicka recovery) glyphs on jewelry
(5) Use an armor set that improves your IDLE magicka sustain. MOST DON'T. Two that do are Seducer and Bright-Throat's Boast. You are looking for a set that includes magicka cost reduction or that interacts favorably with the vagaries of the combat engine (Bright Throat's).
(6) Go hard into Arcanist CP
(7) Use Siphoning Attacks skill

Not all of this may be necessary. If you do all, you will oversustain, but this will allow you to cast Race Against Time while cloaking.

How to be fast in cloak:

(1) Slot Shadowy Disguise and Concealed Weapon on the same bar = +25% speed in cloak.
(2) Get a sorce of Major Epedition. Race Against Time and the Skooma Smuggler set are options that won't uncloak you and will not disrupt the speed buff from Concealed. +30% speed in cloak.
(3) Use all (purple) Swift jewelry = +15% speed in cloak
(4) Use the Steed mundus = +10% speed in cloak
(5) You might use the Jailbreaker set for another +10% speed.

All of the above will get you to +90% speed in cloak, which is just 10% below the speed cap. With gold Swift jewelry and Windrunning passive, from CP, you get another 5% for a total of +95% normal movement speed. You could also use that new set that gives +20% speed when shielding, which will get you to the hard cap (+100% speed). Use Harness Magicka / Dampen, in that case. It will not uncloak you, whereas Healing Ward will.

In terms of skills: Destro / resto. Swallow Soul, Sap Essence, Twisting Path, Race Against Time (probably), Siphoning Attacks, Radiating Regeneration, Healing Ward, Concealed Weapon, Shadowy Disguise, Impale, destro ult, resto ult. Monster set: Something that does damage, such as Grothdarr. If too squishy (you won't be unless you have to face some world boss at low CP), then 1x Pirate + 1x Lord Warden or Chudan.

Vapirko wrote: »

Either vamp mag blade with supporting sets to really quickly stealth through all enemies or stamina warden which gets stam regen while running and has a source of expedition, also worth using sets that cut down cost of sprinting and increase speed.

Yeah, that's another way.

You can sprint almost forever with Prisoner and Coward's gear, while Steed + all Swift + Windrunning CP gets you to speed cap. Great setup for a scroll runner in Cyro. This is possibly the easiest way to be fast with a minimum of button pushes. Put that on a stamsorc and you alternate sprint, gaining magicka, with Streak and Dark Deal. Streak also goes THROUGH NPCs that sometimes block your way.

Yet another way is using Darloc Brae set as a Vampire or with Night's Silence set. Run in crouch and NEVER run out of stamina, because Darloc Brae oversustains your crouch.

The disadvantage of all these methods is that you still draw aggro, even with the Darloc Brae setup. A magicka nightblade is more work, until you get the rythm down, but the NPCs don't even see you. Let's say you have to enter a delve as part of a quest. One of the issues with a merely fast build is that you'll still aggro all the NPCs along the way and they frequently put you into combat and prevent you from leaving the delve on your way out until you've dealt with them. Magicka NB just bypasses all that hassle.